It wasn’t a field when we bought the house in Massachusetts, but that’s what it ended up being. At first, there were massive junipers that lined the circular…
Read more Lessons Learned: Gardening My Rewilded Front Yard – GardenistaThis is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home.…
Read more Ask the Experts: How to Tap Into Your ‘Mind of Winter’ – GardenistaAfter a surprise snow day reschedule, Metro Hort Group hosted its 30th Plant-O-Rama last Thursday morning at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Every year, hundreds of horticultural professionals descend…
Read more Plant-O-Rama Celebrates 30 Years: Here Are 7 Ideas We Took Away from the Symposium – GardenistaNative Plant Trust Above: Inside Native Plant Trust’s rare plant seed cooler, one of several repositories that make up the rare plant seed bank. Photograph by Alexis Doshas…
Read more The Garden Decoder: What Are ‘Seed Banks’? (And Why Are They Important?) – GardenistaIs your garden probiotic? In other words, is it teeming with beneficial microbes that vastly outnumber pathogens and keep you healthy? Looking at your landscape from this angle,…
Read more Ask the Expert: How to Invite More Good Bacteria Into Your Garden (And Your Gut) – GardenistaSince its founding in 1922, the American Horticultural Society (AHS) has published dozens of books, including deep-dive guides on single issues like propagation and starting seeds. The organization’s…
Read more Required Reading: The American Horticultural Society’s New Definitive Guide to Ecological Gardening – GardenistaNORTH ANDOVER — The Planning Board wants a local country club to do its due diligence before allowing it to cut down more than 30 trees along the…
Read more Country club’s plan to cut down trees paused by Planning BoardWith the start of the new year, our minds are a-swirl with ideas for what we’ll do in our gardens come spring. For inspiration, we asked garden and…
Read more Resolutions Roundup: Garden Pros Share the 10 Ways They’re Changing Their Landscapes in 2026 – GardenistaAn endangered species of marsupial known as the “northern quoll” or the “North Australian native cat” has been spotted in a wildlife sanctuary in Queensland for the first time in almost a century, sparking…
Read more “Native cat” thought to have vanished seen for the first time in 80 yearsAs the year comes to a close, mailboxes (both real and digital) are flooded with donation requests from nonprofit organizations. This is a critical time for charities because…
Read more The Best Garden Nonprofits to Donate to in 2025This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, ecological gardening, on how you can be more sustainable in your landscapes at home. …
Read more The Year in Gardening: Looking Back With Joy (and Looking Ahead With Hope) – GardenistaWhile hiking through the dense jungles of Uganda, wildlife photographer Federica Cordero stumbled upon a young male chimp lounging on a twisted vine. His bemused frown suggests some…
Read more Sit Back and Enjoy the Winning Images From This Year’s Nature inFocus Photography AwardsThis story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to…
Read more An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky MountainsApproximately 2 billion people – one quarter of humanity – now live in regions experiencing moderate to severe increases in seasonality LONDON, England, October 29, 2025 (Newswire.com) –…
Read more Ecological Threat Report 2025: Extreme Wet-Dry Seasons Emerge as Critical Conflict CatalystHappy pub day to us! Today, Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden finally hits bookstores! We can’t wait for you to crack it open and enjoy the contents. Whether you’re…
Read more Lawn-Free Front Yard Ideas: 10 Tips from ‘Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden’In just two weeks, Gardenista: The Low-Impact Garden lands in bookstores! We are so appreciative of all the interest the book has already generated. As a thank-you, our…
Read more The Low-Impact Garden: Fiona Brockhoff’s Nature-Based Garden on the Mornington PeninsulaWe’ve all done it: planted something we love only to learn, sometimes years later, that it is invasive where we live. In many cases, we can be forgiven.…
Read more Invasive Plants to Avoid and the Native Alternatives You Should Grow InsteadWhen I put a call out to my garden design friends about the topic of “cramscaping,” I received a lot of replies along the lines of, “I have…
Read more What Is Cramscaping? Everything You Want to Know About the Garden Design TrendGlow-in-the-dark plants bright enough to light up streets at night may sound like the stuff of science fiction or fantasy.But scientists have already made plants that emit a…
Read more Scientists create rechargeable, multicolored, glow-in-the-dark succulentsThe team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. They already knew it could use oxygen, so…
Read more These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways